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Interface ClassCatalog</H2>
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<DT><B>All Known Implementing Classes:</B> <DD><A HREF="../../../../com/sleepycat/bind/serial/StoredClassCatalog.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.bind.serial">StoredClassCatalog</A></DD>
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<DT><PRE>public interface <B>ClassCatalog</B></DL>
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A catalog of class description information for use during object
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 <p>This information is used for serialization of class descriptors or
 java.io.ObjectStreamClass objects, each of which represents a unique class
 format.  For each unique format, a unique class ID is assigned by the
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 of the full class information.  When used with <A HREF="../../../../com/sleepycat/bind/serial/SerialInput.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.bind.serial"><CODE>SerialInput</CODE></A> and
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Close a catalog database and release any cached resources.</TD>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Return the ObjectStreamClass for the given class ID.</TD>
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<CODE>&nbsp;byte[]</CODE></FONT></TD>
<TD><CODE><B><A HREF="../../../../com/sleepycat/bind/serial/ClassCatalog.html#getClassID(java.io.ObjectStreamClass)">getClassID</A></B>(<A HREF="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/io/ObjectStreamClass.html" title="class or interface in java.io">ObjectStreamClass</A>&nbsp;classDesc)</CODE>

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<DD>Return the class ID for the current version of the given class
 description.
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 class descriptor, since it is much more compact.  To get back the
 ObjectStreamClass for a class ID, call <A HREF="../../../../com/sleepycat/bind/serial/ClassCatalog.html#getClassFormat(byte[])"><CODE>getClassFormat(byte[])</CODE></A>.
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<DD><CODE><A HREF="../../../../com/sleepycat/db/DatabaseException.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.db">DatabaseException</A></CODE>
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<DD>Return the ObjectStreamClass for the given class ID.  This may or may
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